Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-02-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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served in a museum in an Arizona
town.
One Australian farmer has shot,
trapped and poisoned $1,000 rabbits in
the last year.
The people of Greenfield. Ind, have
made up purse of 81 800 with which
to drill for gas.
Women are now employed as ticket
agents at the stations on the Staten
Island railroad.
"A farmer at Batavia, y. Y, is said
to have devoured thirteen dozen of fclams
during one day
-EX-Pre3Ident Arthur was a men,
Der of the Thirteen Club of New York.
and was the first 10 die.
The largest library in the world is
the Imperial at Paris, which contains
over 100000 volumes.
In the library at the British Muse
um there are over thirty-two miles of
shelves filed with books.
"A party OF southern capitalists are
talking of establishing beef-canning
factory at New Orleans, La.
Brick PomerOy writes from London
that English capitalists are spelling &c
tunnel the Rocky mountains.
AT SOmerviIle, Mass, a woman ha,
contributed $4,000 dollars for estab.
fishing home for age'l women.
Rhode Island owes its name to Isle
Of Rhodes (R9Ses) IN tie Mediterranean
sea, which it IS said TO resemble.
The number of daily newspapers in
the United States is over 1900, with an
aggregate circulation of 4, 4,S00,OO0.
Sig. Camini, Venetian, is credit.
ed with the ability to speak and write
ninety six languages and dialects.
II Peter Jenkins, of Buffalo, re.
Gently made ten wills. After his death
all Of them were offered for probate.
-LOulsville's colored fair IS said to
be great success, being visited by the
white people as much as the EthiopIans.
One OF fCincinnati's chief industries
is tie manufacturing of lead, fifteen
million pounds of which are made every
year.
All the curlOsities in the Chateau
OF Langeais, in TOuraine, France, have
been sold. y single statuette brought
5000.
Harvard College las ,O77 students
this winter, against LOGS last year,
while the university has SIS students,
against ,662
"A new cOlOTIng III nature is the
''tobOggan complexion" consisting Of
deep red on the cheeks and caTmine on
/ the ears and nose.
Out Of the twenty-six BarOus who
/ signed the Magma Charta, only three
could write their names. The remain
der made their mark.
! The $1,000 tons OF SCOT which are
taken out of London ehimneys each year
are used for fertillzing purposes, and
are Talusti at 500, 90.
The river from which Connecticut
is AIMED was known 10 the Indians as
Quinn Htieut." which interpreted
means sat the lOrg river"
"A Bartlett, (S. II. man crawled
under his house to make repairs, but got
wedged in 50 that the neIghbOrs had TO
cut hole in the fOOr to release HIN.
The number of divorces per I,00O
marriages, is in London, 10 in Berlin,
10 in Munich, % in Vienna, 25 in Paris.
73 in Boston. and 223 in san Francisco.
A visit 10 the sewers of Paris, was
a feature OF press festival recently held
in that city. Five hundred persons
awaited themselves OF the singular pro-
grdmme.
Two women in Connecticut-LucJ
Luther, at Hadlyme, and Elizabeth
Buck, at Wethersiield-cele their
1U3 birthday anniversaries within few
days past.
Isaac Murphy, the colOTed Ameri-
can Jockey, is the nearest approach We
have to Fred Archer, his annual earn
lngs being placed at from $4,000 to
1900.
The PiOnk family in LincOlntOn,
\. c., is long-lIved. Joseph is now 80
years old; his sister, Mrs. Tethrow, is
100 years, and Mrs. Weaver, another
sister, is 1O2 years of age.
The first recorded coal mine in
America was situated near Ottawa, Ill,
being discovered and opened in 1869.
II is estimated that the state contains
one.seventh Of all known coal in North
America.
The word California" first occur
red IN novel entitled ''La5 Sergas de
Esplsndian," published in 1910, and
the name was first given to this coun-
try by Bernal Diaz Costello, who served
under COTteZ.
AT the Presidential election of 1854,
out of voting populatiOnO of 13, 792, ,S9f
only IL. OBS. $40 voted, while 3, 1j4,47S
or 27 per cent, did not vote. The
greatest percentage of nOn-voters was
62 per cent in Rhode Island and South
Carolina; the smallest, Z per cent, in
Iadiana.
of ninety-two redwood trees in
Calaveras Grove, California, ten are
over thirty feet in diameter, and eighty
two have diameter of from fifteen to
thirty feet. Their ages are estimated
from GOO to 500 years. Their height
ranges from $50 to 237 feet.
AN Iowa railroad conductor who
found a pocketbook containing $3.50 and
hunted up the owner, who proved to be
an aged granger and his wife, was met
with this remark from the old lady: SIT
was good thing some one seen you
pick it UP or We never would have got
it again.
4 ,cater-pr00f paint for stone etc., is
prepared by fusing equal .arts of alu-
minum palmitate and eolophony, or
mixing aluminium palmitate with wax
and dissolving in soda and water. A
solution resembling soap is formed,
which can be used with advantage for
well-paintiug and the like. After the
paint is dry It is washed with weak
solution of aluminium 70 render it in
soluble.
d.. p. p. Deier1ia maintains that
the electric light contains rays which
are hurtful to vegetation, bue these; he
says, can be held buck by transparent
glass. Tie light itself, he finds, con-
tains enough OF the rays useful to vege-
tstion 10 maintain the life OF plants for
two months and half, but the quanti-